Weetslade tower

HER Number:
788

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Weetslade tower

Place:
Weetslade

Map Sheet:
NZ27SE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Fortified House

Site Type: Specific:
Tower House

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C15

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The 1415 list of castles and fortalices in Northumberland includes "turris de Wittslad iuxt mare". Bates located this at Weetslade in Long Benton parish, but Dodds objected on the grounds that Weetslade is not by the sea. There is no further information.

Easting:
26126

Northing:
73618

Grid Reference:
NZ2612673618

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 788 >> C.J. Bates, 1891, The Border Holds of Northumberland, Archaeologia Aeliana, 2, XIV, p. 19 and map opp. p. 14 R.N. Hadcock, 1939, A Map of Medieval Northumberland and Durham, Archaeologia Aeliana, 4, XVI, 176 M.H. Dodds, ed. 1930, Weetslade Township, Northumberland County History, XIII, 430